[Prospero]

It's amazing how every ten years or so, somebody rediscovers the Confederados again. I like reading about them, though. They certainly had better timing than those who went to Mexico to fight for Maximilian.

I'm just glad my Confederate ancestors went back, a little deeper, into Texas.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***than those who went to Mexico to fight for Maximilian.***

I’ve read that in the movie THE SEARCHERS, when Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) returns to his brother’s Texas home, he gives Debbie his metal which is a French medal awarded by Maximilian for service in Mexico.